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Saturday, July 18, 2015

ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT

Parrikar forms panel on soldiers’ grievances

Vijay Mohan - Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 17

In an unprecedented step,
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has set up a committee of experts to look
into grievances related to service matters and pensions of Armed Forces
personnel so as to initiate measures to minimise litigation and disputes in
courts.

The orders for setting up
the committee were signed by Parrikar yesterday. Consisting of five members,
the committee will report directly to the Defence Minister and is mandated to
submit its findings and recommendations within 60 days. The committee’s terms
of reference include recommending broad institutional changes to mechanisms for
redressal of grievances and holistically examine resolution of issues that have
led to massive pending litigation.

According to sources,
over 10,000 cases pertaining to service matters such as pay fixation,
promotions, policy interpretation, pensions and military justice are pending
before the Armed Forces Tribunal, the High Courts and the Supreme Court.

The committee members
include Lt Gen Richard Khare, former Military Secretary; Lt Gen Mukesh
Sabharwal, former Adjutant General; Chandigarh-based High Court lawyer Major
Navdeep Singh; and Kargil war survivor and blade runner Major DP Singh.

Terming it a historic progressive
decision to bring comfort to serving and retired defence personnel, Major
Navdeep Singh said formulating the committee was a watershed moment devoid of
any political hues and in line with the Prime Minister’s directives that the
government should be able to focus on the core functioning of its ministries
and disputes should be resolved in-house so that aggrieved employees were not
forced to approach the courts.

Ex-servicemen’s
organisations have for long been calling for reduction in litigation,
especially appeals initiated by the MoD against disabled soldiers in the past
few years.